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GEOSCIENCES
卷 13, 期 11, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/geosciences13110337
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Squamata; Monstersauria; Palaeosaniwa; Wapiti Formation; Cretaceous; Campanian; Canada; Alberta
The reported lizard material from the Wapiti Formation in Alberta, Canada is limited to fragmentary remains of different lizard species. However, new squamate material, including a frontal bone and an indeterminate squamate astragalocalcaneum, have been discovered at the DC Bonebed locality. These findings confirm the presence of monstersaurian squamates in the Wapiti Formation, which represents the northernmost record of any definitive Late Cretaceous monstersaur to date.
Reported lizard material from the Wapiti Formation (central-western Alberta, Canada) is limited to fragmentary remains of Kleskunsaurus grandeprairiensis and Socognathus unicuspis, a partial dentary attributed to Chamops cf. C. segnis, and a vertebra reportedly comparable to those of the much larger lizard Palaeosaniwa canadensis. P. canadensis is a Late Cretaceous North American member of Monstersauria, a Mesozoic and Cenozoic anguimorph group represented today by five species of Heloderma. Here, we document new squamate material from the DC Bonebed locality (Wapiti Unit 3; Campanian), including a right frontal identified as cf. P. canadensis and a taxonomically indeterminate squamate astragalocalcaneum. A partial skeleton from the Two Medicine Formation of Montana provisionally attributed to P. canadensis has a frontal resembling the corresponding element from the DC Bonebed in overall shape, in having narrowly separated facets for the prefrontal and postorbitofrontal, and in bearing osteoderms similar to the DC specimen's in ornamentation and configuration. The Two Medicine and DC specimens differ from a roughly contemporaneous frontal from southern Alberta referred to the monstersaur Labrodioctes montanensis. The DC specimen confirms the presence of monstersaurian squamates in the Wapiti Formation, representing the northernmost record of any definitive Late Cretaceous monstersaur to date.
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